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...animal-rights activists, however, say the branding is unnecessarily cruel. Protesters marched last week in front of the USDA offices in Washington, symbolically branding one another on their right cheeks with sponges that had been dipped in paint. Some demonstrators suggested that cows could be identified with an ear tag, a tattoo or even a strategically placed microchip. Late in the week a federal district court judge in Rochester, responding to a complaint from the local Humane Society against Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, issued a temporary restraining order to halt the branding and directed the USDA to inform all dairymen...
...swept along by Brodsky's passionate discourse on Auden's premonitory war poem "September 1, 1939." The work is reimagined rather than reduced by the usual critical method. "You don't dissect a bird to find the origins of its song," says Brodsky. "What should be dissected is your ear...
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, wrote the man who most disliked him, the poet and engraver William Blake, "All Nature was degraded;/ The King drop'd a tear into the Queen's Ear,/ And all his Pictures faded...
...Turtle Diary just to hear Glenda Jackson pronounce the word "turtle." She utters the word with the same subtlety which John Irvin uses to direct the film, both understated and graceful to the ear as well...
...arbiter of emotions until 1973, when his hippie grandson, Jean Paul III, was kidnaped in Italy. Publicly, the wizened billionaire refused to pay ransom, a sound decision since he had 14 other grandchildren and did not want to set a tempting precedent. But after the boy's freshly detached ear was delivered as a warning, the old man lent young Getty's father, Jean Paul Jr., $850,000 to secure his son's release. The agreement called for a reasonable interest rate...